Ex-BBC journalist Amol Rajan swooped the following day, asking Grant: “What happened last night?”<\/p>\n
But instead of sowing clever seeds of doubt, Grant said he’d been so “blatant” about wanting to be a traitor that he simply responded he was one, when he was asked.<\/p>\n
It was an odd reply, perhaps because he was flustered.<\/p>\n
Rajan labelled him the “Lord of Chaos”, but Hall stayed loyal.<\/p>\n
“I just don’t believe Richard’s a traitor, I’ve known him 30 years and he’s my neighbour,” she said.<\/p>\n
“He says and does eccentric things, he’s an amazing guy, but I think he’s acting out because he’s not been chosen.”<\/p>\n
Hall’s loyalty could be tested though, given Alan Carr murdered Paloma Faith in series one by touching her face.<\/p>\n
Comic and writer Miranda Hart also thinks Grant could be a faithful, but admitted she is confused. <\/p>\n
Winkleman told the press launch she thought Grant blurted out his identity in error, because he was so thrilled to be a traitor.<\/p>\n
“He was giddy, wasn’t he? He’s just laughing at what’s happening. Fantastic,” she said.<\/p>\n
Ed Gamble, the host of BBC One and BBC Sounds spin-off show Uncloaked, added: “It felt like he’d been given the lead role in a film and he just had to tell everyone. It’s such an insane moment.”<\/p>\n
Stephen Lambert, the head of Studio Lambert, which produces the show, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Friday: “It’s a strange way to be a traitor. To be a traitor on the show is all about keeping the fact that you’re a traitor a secret.<\/p>\n
“He had to row back quite quickly because he remembered that actually the point of being a traitor is not to tell anyone.”<\/p>\n
Grant may find that no-one tells him a secret ever again.<\/p>\n
He did eventually decide to let the much more cool, calm and collected Jama take the lead in their subsequent decision making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ex-BBC journalist Amol Rajan swooped the following day, asking Grant: “What happened last night?” But instead of sowing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-789500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}